Race 6 Flashcards
What are distinguishing features of an overtly racist regime and other societies where social stratification contributes significantly?
1) official ideology that is racist from authorities 2) racial purity – anti-miscegenation 3) social segregation by law – no equality 4) out group cannot hold political office 5) very limited access to resources and economic opportunity. (Fredrickson 2002)
Why couldn’t the predmodern racial paternalism of the South work in the urban and industrialized environment of the 20th century?
The maintenance of white supremacy required rules and regulations to prevent blacks from taking advantage of the absence of personalized surveillance and thereby getting “out of their place.” (Fredrickson 2002)
What event in history did most to discredit racism in its blatant ideological forms?
The liberation of the Nazi death camps in 1945.
What happened to the eugenics movement after WWII?
It ended. In 1950 the most prominent geneticists and physical anthropologists all or part of the UNESCO statement science gave no support to the notion that human groups different in their innate capacity for intellectual and emotional development and that there was no evidence of disadvantageous effects from race mixing. (Fredrickson 2002)
In the US, UK, and France, scholars have defined a “new racism.” What is it?
It is a way of thinking about difference that reifies and essentializes culture rather than genetic endowment, or in other words makes culture do the work of race. (Fredrickson 2002)
